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2021 Online Trivia Challenge
Join the NH Campaign for Legal Services for a fun night of brain-teasing pub trivia from the socially-distant safety of your own home. Proceeds to benefit New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the Legal Advice & Referral Center. When: March 25 at 6 p.m Where: Zoom -...
NH evictions rise during COVID moratorium
Kyle Stucker Portsmouth Herald Local landlords, according to a New Hampshire attorney who represents them, are now successfully using health and safety arguments to “couch” their efforts to evict tenants who are behind on rent because a federal COVID-19 moratorium...
Lunch with Legal Aid: January 21
Thank you to our generous supporters at The Sedoric Group of Steward Partners for sponsoring this event!
Legal aid got the power back on
Vicky, a single mom of young children, has received help from NH Legal Assistance in the past. Recently, Vicky called her legal aid advocate to say the utility company had disconnected the heat in her home. To reconnect it, the company said she would need a valid...
With legal aid , Navy vet finally gets disability benefits
A traumatic brain injury left Michael, a Navy veteran and former teacher, unable to work. Yet, his application for disability benefits was denied by the state Department of Health and Human Services due to missing paperwork that he could not get from his medical...
Stephen was facing an $11,000 paperwork mistake
Unemployment kept Stephen afloat when COVID-19 forced him to close his restaurant. Then, he feared it would bankrupt him when the state told him he had to repay $11,000 because of a paperwork mistake. "It was just — [my] jaw dropped," Stephen told Todd Bookman of New...
“NHLA kept us from being homeless.”
The eviction notice came at the worst time for Lela and Mustafa and their 11-month-old daughter. Lela’s mother had died just a few months earlier from COVID-19, and they were both out of work. They didn’t have the money to pay rent or hire a lawyer. Desperate, they...
2020 NHCLS Breakfast
The Campaign Breakfast this year will stream LIVE online at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, including: Keynote remarks from Judge Fern Fisher of Hofstra University AND the presentation of the 2020 John E. Tobin Justice Award to Judge Susan Carbon. Registration is...
LARC and NHLA work for tenants’ rights leads to NH Supreme Court victory
The state Supreme Court ruled on August 11 that landlords are required to provide tenants correct eviction notices, notices that inform them of their right to stay in their home while they dispute an eviction in court. This victory for tenants’ rights began with an...
COVID-19 increases need for unemployment and welfare legal aid
When the pandemic hit in March, state and federal moratoria on evictions kept vulnerable tenants in their home. Still, as many in New Hampshire fell into crisis, NH Legal Assistance and the Legal Advice & Referral Center saw a significant increase in calls...
NHLA, private law firms join to increase legal aid to Granite Staters in pandemic crisis
The need for civil legal aid is surging. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have pushed more New Hampshire families into financial peril, particularly as supplemental unemployment insurance benefits come to an end, eviction moratoriums...
Former UNH Law students honor professor with donation
The Campaign for Legal Services received a generous donation this summer from a group of former students of Mitch Simon, in honor of his retirement from teaching law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. “Professor Simon was a steadfast source of guidance,...
NHLA and LARC expand access to justice with new hires
Funding from a variety of public and private sources has allowed NH Legal Assistance and the Legal Advice & Referral Center to hire an additional lawyer and two paralegals to respond to the surge in need we are already seeing as a result of the pandemic crisis....
Working with clients inspired our summer interns
We were fortunate to have had several students intern with NH Legal Assistance this summer. They all cited their work advocating for clients in need as the best part of their internships. Their reflections are below. Sofia Hyatt, 3L at UNH School of Law I am so...
A check-in protects senior from domestic abuse
Virginia, 77, didn’t want to admit that she needed protection – especially not from her own daughter. She may have suffered in silence had NH Legal Assistance attorney Kay Drought not called her to check in on a prior domestic abuse case. The timing was good. A few...
Without LARC, “I would have been suffering.”
A place to call home is one of the most basic needs for humans everywhere. When facing a worldwide public health crisis, a safe place to call home is more critical than ever. Danika learned in the midst of the pandemic that her landlord was selling the duplex she’d...
Lunch with Legal Aid, July 16
Attorney General Gordon MacDonald opened today’s Lunch with Legal Aid with a confession: “I’ve been practicing law since 1995, and my admission is that when I walk into a courtroom, to this day, I get butterflies in my stomach." “Now, imagine walking in as a young...
Lunch with Legal Aid: June 4, 2020
To register for our Lunch with Legal Aid on June 4, click here.
Legal Aid in NH in 2020
On April 29, the Campaign hosted an intimate Zoom panel discussion for our supporters on various committees to hear directly from the program leaders about what 2020 holds for legal aid in New Hampshire. Key takeaways: Uncertainty reigns for major funding sources for...
2020 Impact Update and Legal Aid’s response to COVID-19 in NH
Our communities, our state and our nation face profound economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 crisis. NHLA and LARC are preparing for a surge in demand that may exceed what we experienced during the Great Recession. As more people fall into poverty,...
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